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Quotes About Disorder

It is not just soldiers in the field who later suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. It is often the inevitable consequence of a seemingly normal sublunary existence.
~ Julian Barnes
And that was when he knew for sure: No one was in charge. No one at all. As he'd suspected, there was very definitely no plan.
~ Julie Smith
Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder.
~ Karen Armstrong
Culture was felt to be a fragile achievement, which could always fall prey to the forces of disorder and disintegration.
~ Karen Armstrong
You think she's got a personality disorder? No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough.
~ Karen Traviss
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
~ Philip K. Dick
One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
~ Dean Koontz
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~ Phyllis Diller
Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
~ John Hughes
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
~ John Ruskin
Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.
~ William Shakespeare
Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.
~ Paul Valery
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.
~ Steven Pressfield
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Statism is a mental disorder, much akin to Stockholm Syndrome.
~ Dane Whalen
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
~ Septima Poinsette Clark
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
~ Pierre Bayle
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
~ Edward Abbey
Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.
~ Michael Savage
From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"
~ Rebecca Goldstein
When the world came to, it came, not to its senses, but to its madness.
~ Helen O'Reilly
I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.
~ Theodore Roethke
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.
~ Edward Hirsch